How The French Revolution Plunged Europe Into War (The French Revolution S02E02)

I have lost it with TRIH. Dominic is a wise and erudite narrator, but Tom WILL NOT SHUT UP. What an attention seeking moron he is. He won't let his more intelligent colleague talk!!!!

You guys are magnificent. Thank you for your work and dedication it's so appreciated.

My little spin/ thought explosion is we are at the complete end of the world that they started covid knocked it out and then the anointment of Kamala instead of and election is the end. The state can no longer handle the needs of the people and we are going to figure it out vote Trump 24

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Allez les gars!

Walk-in uninvited but dressed as Ivermectin for Halloween LOL

To this day, the needs of the populace - in the west - are only met during wartime, after a revolution, or fear of both.

We're on the verge. Buckle up!

Thank you.

Fascinating your description of the Fall of Papal Avignon. It is indeed an overlooked element of the French Revolution that symbolized the beginning of the end of an era.

The French Revolution, especially the terror, is an important slice of history.

Great drama. ❤❤❤🇨🇦

Could you puhleese number the related episodes so nothing gets missed. All French revolutions videos all have different names.

That’s Montecito, California, where your royal British dissident is living. Right down the road from me.

Ironically the emperor Leopold II during his long reign as Grand duke of Tuscany (1765-1790) , was the very model of a reforming monarch and headed the first state in history where torture and the death penalty were abolished!

The black uniforms with death head s remind me of the SS….

May i suggest an interest person to talk? thomas cochrane has a cinematic life too hahah

Just awesome work from you two…and all the behind the scenes folks. Thank you.

I have two arms😅

Observing that liberal nationalism is a phenomenon of the last 250 years, we see that it coincides with the rise of Anglo-American global leadership. The 18th century’s top authority on international law, the Swiss Vattel, already a raging Anglomaniac, writes in 1758
[England, whose opulence and formidable fleets have a powerful influence, without alarming any state on the score of its liberty, because that nation seems cured of the rage of conquest,— England, I say, has the glory of holding the political balance. She is attentive to preserve it in equilibrium:—a system of policy, which is in itself highly just and wise, and will ever entitle her to praise, as long as she continues to pursue it only by means of alliances, confederacies, and other methods equally lawful.] “Narrator: England was not cured of the rage of conquest.” She was learning another way to do it: by infecting her targets with liberal nationalism.

The emotional cause of liberal nationalism is that liberal nationalism works—on both sides of the ocean. Among both Americans and Ukrainians, this ideology—even though it has repeatedly led to so many disasters (Q: how awful would Europe be if, if the Bourbons, Hapsburgs and Hohenzollerns were still in charge? A: not awful at all?) feels powerful and important and useful.

An ideology works not because it collectively achieves the right thing, but because it makes its believers feel good. Ideologies feel good because of the human instinct for power. Unfortunately, this instinct can be so manipulated that “nationalism” becomes a policy whose predictable effect is to wreck a nation to do an empire’s “dirty work.”

Since England was liberal, it made sense for England to promote liberalism overseas. This meant that to be a liberal anywhere, even 250 years ago, was to be aligned with England—with her “opulence and formidable fleets.”

Imagine if the Foreign Office, for some weird reason, had instead chosen to promote… Zoroastrianism. Imagine if US foreign aid today was only for Zoroastrians; if applying to a US college took an essay about your Zoroastrian faith; if “democracy” anywhere in the world amounted to the rule of the local Zoroastrians... well, the local fire temple would start getting pretty popular. This explains the Machiavellian liberalism.

What about Machiavellian nationalism? Liberal nationalism abroad is liberal internationalism at home. What is in it for our domestic sponsors of global Zoroastrianism—as it were?

Well, bureaucrats like to feel powerful too. To say the least. And nothing says “power” like having an entourage. If the taxpayer pays you to jet around the world and maintain an entourage… the more mouths you feed on someone else’s dime, the better. Kings were always judged by how many warriors sat at their table; catering was never free.
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One person you mentioned earlier in the episode survived the Revolution: Lafayette. Great show! Thank you both.

I wonder if Louis & Marie Antoinette found it impossible to overcome the idea that they were ordained by God to be king and queen because of their long lines of illustrious ancestors. Imagine you lived in Versailles which was built by your ancestor, king Louis IV. What went through Louis' mind when he stood in front of the guillotine and God did not descend from heaven to save him and all is lost

Goodness. I was ready to take arms ! What an opening!

We have to deal with the enemy within who in their right mind would say that these days ?

How often are these “conspiracy theories” against money’d interests actually spot-on?

'The tax evaders in the American Colonies' - I love it!🙂

Robespierre and Saint-Just were against the expansionist war until the end. This was one of the reasons for the fierce conflict with Carnot, who wanted conquests after the Battle of Fleurus – but the triumvirate (Robespierre, Saint-Just, Couthon) was against it. Great men.

Yes, yes, Robespierre was a paranoid, it's not at all that the internal enemies turned out to be real, there was no betrayal by Dumouriez, and it was not at all expected that many officers would sympathize with the ancien régime.

Mercy, Robespierre is not Cato, he is Tiberius Gracchus, even Babeuf admitted it.

As a compatriot of Stanisława Przybyszewska, it is my duty to defend the honor of Robespierre against the slander of the Anglo-Saxons!

I think there wouldn't have been such terror - honestly, even the horrors of the War in the Vendée - if the madmen of the Gironde hadn't brought war with all of Europe combined with civil war upon France. It is not Robespierre who is to blame for the Great Terror, but the Girondins.

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The details in your reading of the history of French revolution are on point. Hate to muddy the waters with a request or two, i.e. to explore some of the motivations of the other players outside France active both culturally and politically. The naive artistic responses are both simple and profound, Beethoven and William Blake (Classicism which is both Roman or Greek promoted anachronistic Renaissance ideals that gave rise to the 'Romanticist project' linked to empire and colonialism) - the fashions, civic attitudes seem to spread in advance of French military adventurism and inevitable collapse under Napoleon Bonaparte. The Salon became an art gallery and then a museum to educate the citizens. The colonies would buy French art and adopt French taste without necessarily speaking the language or following the politics. Despite the separation of geography the influences are there to this day.

And this is when the bloody French national anthem is written.

"It's what Jesus would have wanted."😂

MrHolland one of your most memorable judgments to me is from Rubicon. You, as a historian, spent PARAGRAPHS on the decadance involved with ENJOYING food, instead of just using food for mere sustenance. CARE to comment on the stupidity of such a comment?🤷‍♂️

Up for grabs was exploitation of former colonies. And colonialist were quick to observe and point out, what goes around cums.

On a recent comment that said the US should pay the Haitians reparations, I replied it should be paid by France. The response was “what, why?”

Thank god for the French, the "foremost people of the Universe" - but also thank for for Tom & Dominic.

What's with all the adverts

Louis and MarieAntoinette - reminds me of the behaviour of a certain Charles I after his capture in 1646 and his subsequent behaviour.

What a splendid channel! Brilliant. Thank you so much.

If it wasn't for the workers, these Bougie Brits wouldn't have an elite university to sit their lazy asses down in. You're welcome.

S'il y a une chose qu'on ne peut pas retirer à Louis XVI, c'est son courage. Il n'a jamais eu peur, ni lorsqu'il s'est présenté au balcon de Versailles face à 1200 gardes nationales armés en 1790, ni quand il s'est rendu à la Commune révolutionnaire de Paris juste après la prise de la Bastille où Jacques de Flesselles avait été achevé sur le parvis de la mairie 2 jours avant , ni quand les Sans-culotte ont envahi les Tuileries pour l'obliger par la menace à retirer son véto, (ce qu'il a refusé) ni quand il est sorti des Tuileries le 10 aout avec une haie de sans-culotte qui aurait pu le lyncher, les mêmes qui vont massacrer les Gardes Suisse avec des horreurs innommables et actes de cannibalisme, et surtout ni lors de son exécution où St Just à reconnu qu'il "était mort comme un roi". Louis XVI n'a jamais accepté de concéder une ligne de son pouvoir absolu, c'est ce qui le perdra, mais il était courageux.

Il y a un argument infaillible de Robespierre qu'il va reprocher aux députés. Cet argument constitutionnel figure dans la Constitution de 1791. La France s'interdit toute guerre de conquête. "La Nation française renonce à entreprendre aucune guerre dans la vue de faire des conquêtes, et n'emploiera jamais ses forces contre la liberté d'aucun peuple. - Or les raisons de la guerre sont clairement exprimées par les Girondins qui sont de piller les pays attaqués.

Britain was a major rising power at this time, but they had a very small army and there was no threat of a British land invasion. Since the 1500s, Austria, or more properly, the Habsburgs, had long been the real enemies and rivals of France, threatening to dominate all of Europe or perhaps the world.

In case Saint Domingue (Haiti) is mentioned again: the final "-ingue" is pronounced like the English word "hang", but without the aspiration at the beginning.

Please do an episode into the Bourbon Restoration. I never knew how King Louis XVIII ever made it to the throne. There has to be some fantastic stories behind this massive change in governance

.... It's what jesus would have wanted.... 😂

I’d have liked to see Bing & Bob on the road to Waterloo!